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Hepatization   Listen
noun
Hepatization  n.  
1.
(Chem.) Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas. (Obs.)
2.
(Med.) Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.





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"Hepatization" Quotes from Famous Books



... a State of Gray Induration'. The absence of respiratory murmur indicates extensive hepatization of one lung; a circumstance, however, of rare occurrence. When the induration is of both lungs, and equally so, the respiratory murmur and the inspiration remain the same, except that they become irregular. ...
— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt


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